Temporary New Hours – Torrance Location

From Monday 25 August to Tuesday 2 September, the Torrance location (at 350 Crenshaw Blvd St. 100A) will be CLOSED from 2pm-3pm.

Temporary New Hours – Torrance Location

From Monday 25 August to Tuesday 2 September, the Torrance location (at 350 Crenshaw Blvd St. 100A) will be CLOSED from 2pm-3pm.

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Difference Between SP, LP, and EP For Video Tape Recording

You may have noticed that your camcorder or VCR supports different recording modes. These are commonly abbreviated by the letters SP, LP and EP. SP is short for Standard Play. Standard play allows you to record information onto the tape the way it was intended, with no quality loss. By default, VCRs and camcorders will...
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How to Clean Heads on Reel to Reel Player

In order to get the most out of your reel to reel machine, you’ll need to clean the heads from time to time. To clean the heads on your reel to reel machine, you’ll just need some cotton swabs and some head cleaner. This is especially important if you are transferring reel to reel to...
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The Most Common Audio Formats

After having converted your audio such as cassette to CD, or reel to reel to CD, you can also rip the audio back to your computer into a variety of different audio formats. Here are some of the most common audio formats, and a little bit of info about them: MP3 – Today, when you...
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How to Rip a CD to MP3 Files on Your Hard Drive With Windows Media Player

Transferring learning how to rip a CD to your computer has a couple great advantages. First, you can consolidate your whole collection in one location, or even place it on a hard drive for safe keeping. Once it’s on the computer, organizing everything is a breeze. You can use a music organizing program such as...
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Are CDs Obsolete? Fate of the Compact Disc

In the year 1982, Sony released the CDP-101, the first consumer Compact Disc audio CD player, was released at a price of about $1000. At the time of release, it was marketed as high-end home audio equipment aimed at audiophiles, as only a very small number of albums were available — only 16 to be...
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Fun Arts and Crafts From Recycled LP Vinyl Records

Last week we looked at some fun things to make out of video tapes including making a book end, school notebooks, and gift wrap . This week, I’ll show you guys another cool household item that can be made from recycled LP vinyl records. As it turns out vinyl records are pretty flexible, and will...
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How to Fix Muffled Audio When Transferring Audio to CD

As time goes on, our old analog recordings continue to degrade day by day and little by little and soon will turn into muffled audio, or even worse. What once was a audio track full of crystal clear sounds had been transformed into a muffled inaudible mess once you transfer the cassette to CD. This...
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Why is My Record Skipping? Fixing Vinyl and Record Players

Why is Your Record Player Skipping? Oh No! Your Record Skips! What Now? Vinyl is great. It also happens to come with a lot of problems, such as record skipping. With the recent revival in popularity of vinyl record and record players, maybe you’ve brought your record collection out. Or, maybe you’ve purchased some new...
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A List of Video Tape Formats, Types of Video Tapes

As technology progresses, we’re constantly switching out the old for the new. Well, as everyone already knows, this also applies to your family media such as video and audio tapes. There’s been so many different tape formats and shifts of technology over the years, it’s hard for anyone to keep track of the model names...
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Change Speed Of Your Audio – Remove Chipmunk Effect

Do you have recordings of people sounding like chipmunks? This is typically a problem of differentiating tape playback speed. When a tape is played back at a speed that is faster than what it was recorded on, you will get the chipmunk effect. If the opposite happens, then you’re recording will sound slooooooooow with lower...
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How to Fix an Audio Cassette, Audio Cassette Repair Guide

Dealing with an audio cassette repair is similar to the “How to Fix a Video Tape” guide I posted earlier. To make things easier, the tools I used were splicing tape, a small flathead screwdriver, and a new blank cassette tape. The first step is to inspect what type of damage your cassette has, the...
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How to Convert Audio Cassettes to CD or Mp3 Files – A Quick Guide

One of the types of requests we see a lot of is people asking how to convert audio cassettes or how to get their audio cassettes transferred to CD or MP3s. What many people fail to realize, is that it’s much easier than you think to perform this same type of audio conversion from your...
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DVD Your Memories Irvine Office, New Location!

We’re celebrating our new Irvine office! We are pleased to announce that your local, professional and specialized Family Media Transfer Technicians are now located at 18195 McDurmott East Suite D, Irvine, CA 92614. The Costa Mesa store has been moved and all orders can be picked up and dropped off at our Irvine office as...
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San Diego Reel to Reel Audio Transfer Made Easy

San Diego reel to reel audio to CD services Brief History Reel to Reel audio is a form of magnetic tape audio recording in which the tape is actually held on a reel, rather than being enclosed within a cassette. The reel which holds the tape, also called the supply or feed reel, is attached...
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Converting LP records to CD

A gramophone record, also known as a phonograph record, vinyl record, or simply record, is an analog sound storage medium consisting of a flat disc with an inscribed spiral groove. The groove starts at the edge of the disc, gradually moving toward the center. This was the primary recording medium for much of the 20th...
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The DVD Your Memories Blog

Congratulations! You found our blog! This is a place where we will post answers to common (and not so common) questions, interesting information about different products and technologies, and lots of other audio/video stuff. As “The Leader in Family Media Transfer,” we can help you take the guesswork out of getting your media transferred, whether...
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